Germany's AfD party bans lead candidate Maximilian Krah from EU election events.

Germany's far-right AfD party has banned its lead candidate, Maximilian Krah, from EU election campaign events due to a series of scandals, including his comments that the SS, the Nazi's main paramilitary force, were "not all criminals." The party is under scrutiny after allegations of links to Russia and China, and a domestic court ruling that AfD could be under surveillance as a potentially extremist party. These scandals have led to a break with French far-right party, Rassemblement National, which announced it would no longer sit with the AfD in the European Parliament.

May 21, 2024
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